Styles Genres Museums Artists Support

An open visual arts database with 825,000+ artworks, 75,000+ artists, and 750+ styles spanning centuries of human creativity.

Browse

Styles
Genres
Museums
Artists
Favorites

Popular Styles

Impressionism
Romanticism
Surrealism
Pop Art
Cubism
Realism

Museums

Art Institute of Chicago
MoMA
Rijksmuseum
Cleveland Museum of Art
The MET
Louvre

VisualArtsDB is free and open for everyone.

Support the project

© 2026 VisualArtsDB

Reason Speaks and Pleasure Carries One Away by Pierre Paul Prud'hon — VisualArtsDB

Reason Speaks and Pleasure Carries One Away

Reason Speaks and Pleasure Carries One Away

Pierre Paul Prud'hon

1795–1799

Medium: Black and white chalk on faded blue antique laid paper
Dimensions: actual: 21.7 x 17.7 cm (8 9/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

Tags

french

More by Pierre Paul Prud'hon

Phrosine et Mélidore

Phrosine et Mélidore

Pierre Paul Prud'hon, 1797

Une Lecture

Une Lecture

Pierre Paul Prud'hon, 1822

Virtue Attacked by Vice

Virtue Attacked by Vice

Pierre Paul Prud'hon, 1790

Phrosine et Mélidore

Phrosine et Mélidore

Pierre Paul Prud'hon, 1797

Une Lecture (A Lecture)

Une Lecture (A Lecture)

Pierre Paul Prud'hon, 1822

Rape of Europa

Rape of Europa

Pierre Paul Prud'hon, 1778

Psyche Carried Off by the Zephyrs

Psyche Carried Off by the Zephyrs

Pierre Paul Prud'hon, 1808

Innocence Prefers Love to Riches

Innocence Prefers Love to Riches

Pierre Paul Prud'hon, 1799

Study for Cupid and Psyche

Study for Cupid and Psyche

Pierre Paul Prud'hon, 1783

Boy with a Dog

Boy with a Dog

Pierre Paul Prud'hon, 1817

Pyrrhus and Andromache

Pyrrhus and Andromache

Pierre Paul Prud'hon, 1793

The Boy with the Dog

The Boy with the Dog

Pierre Paul Prud'hon, 1822